[Chinese export gouaches on "pith" paper] Series of 10 gouaches on pith paper,

19th century, all 21 x 34 cm. and with flowers visited by butterflies as subject, all pasted with corners on album leaves and enclosed in protective borderlines, the album of contemporary silk-clad cardboard with remains of ties, oblong folio.

Here and there with the small tears common with this fragile kind of paper, though always in blank margins, one plate foxed in blank margins. Album leaves and boards loose, silk lining tender. The album is well-restorable. Beautiful album with large gouaches in characteristic bright colours.